BRAG: Lost 30 pounds in 5 weeks

[Tickner]

October 1, I buy in to the Matol Diet. I am a 6 foot male with more than average muscle mass, 230 pounds, and felt fat even though nobody around me really noticed. I started shopping for jeans in Sept for the school year and was having a lot of trouble fitting in to a pair without looking like they were spandex. So I had to go up a size and didn't feel good.

Anyway, Nov 4th, and I just weighed in at 199.4 pounds.

I'm sure many of you are going to think this is unhealthy, its all water weight, or that I lost a ton of muscle mass too.

The answer is none of the above actually. The way it works is this. your body gets energy from 3 main sources: carbs, proteins, fats.

Your body burns carbs/sugars as its primary source of energy, and once the carb/sugar "bank" is depleted it simultaneously use your stored energy (your fat) and your protein (muscles mostly) for energy.

The idea is to deplete your carb/sugar "Bank" completely so that your body is forced to use its stored fat and muscle. But you don't want to lose your muscle right? OFC not, so the protein food is high in protein which helps prevent this by providing the body with protein. So the diet forces my body to enter
"Ketosis" which means my body uses strictly its stored fat as energy.

Anyway, 30 pounds in 5 weeks, and I can see the results in inches and body size. Booyeashacka.

BRAG: 30 pounds gone in 5 weeks
BRAG: I sat down and did NO exercise during this time period.
BEAT: No fast food for me (I was a fast food junkie before this)
VARIANCE: Still 20 more pounds to go.

[rakemeplz]

You will probably die.

[En Passant]

Awesome work, good luck with the rest you are trying to lose.

[Mothercanuck]

what is teh Matol Diet consist of? where didja get it?is it just a meal plan?

[ringosnuff]

Nice brag. Unfortunately, if you did zero exercise, you still probably lost some muscle, albeit less than you would have with a lower protein diet.

[dlorc]

tldr, but 30 pounds is like $60, shouldnt you be trying to win?

[Enervate]

Nice brag op, what were your eating habits before/after?

[SEABEAST]

grats!

[mmbt0ne]

Sounds exactly like Atkins.

[NoahSD]

This sounds like the Atkins diet. I did an extreme version of this in high school and my stomach is still messed up from it 6 years later. That's the thing that I def know it caused, but for all I know my kidney and liver are totally [censored] up from overworking them that hard.

I really really don't suggest using this as a way of losing weight. You're basically just forcing your body to work really hard to get [censored] from your mouth to your ass and starving it at the same time. Go for a [censored] run every day if you wanna lose weight.